Should you give the homeless money?

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A homeless guy was found dead at the foot of the Houses of Parliament in London last week. Homeless people die all the time in our big cities , of course, but the leader of the opposition party, Jeremy Corbyn, couldn’t resist having ago at the government over their policies creating poverty and a large increase of the homeless in the U.K, up 100% since the Tories took power with their austerity policies in 2010. The government made it harder for unemployed and sick people to pay their rent from welfare by cutting it and so people are losing the roof over their heads, especially mentally ill people. Londoners were not too bothered about the homeless guy dying and one less beggar to hassle them. Homeless people commit a lot of crime, take a lot of drugs, and make a lot of mess after they drink themselves into oblivion. But Corbyn had misjudged the sympathy for this guy as he turned out to be a twice deported Portuguese national - so an illegal immigrant - and had committed pedophile offences in Portugal, why they were keen to see the back of him. Foreign born homeless is nothing new in the big cities, 40% of London’s homeless born aboard, many Eastern Europeans. With open borders it makes sense they would be the bulk of the down and outs as the people least likely to get help with welfare and housing when falling on hard times. A lot of the foreign homeless are professional beggars, picking a spot in London where they knew they will make at least £100 a day, many of these people from Romania, who also operate as pickpockets and cash machine scammers. It’s very annoying to think European Union allows the free movement of these criminals and beggars, one of my reasons to vote BREXIT. Some of the homeless actually work in London and because rents are so high they sleep in cardboard cities by night to save on accommodation costs, many coming knowing their fete. In my hometown most homeless are not from my town, British born and always drunk or out of their heads on drugs. In recent years they started to sleep on the main high streets of Britain and not too bothered about being visible. The shame of being homeless has gone. They just don’t care and sleep high on crystal all day. I admire the general public who want to help them by dropping some coins in the hat but they know the homeless will spend it on drugs. I mean seriously, what do they expect them to do with the money? Save up for a Deposit on an apartment? Buy a nice suit for job interviews? Buy them food and coffee guys but NEVER give them cash. I have seen them pick up their booty and put it in the pokie machines down the street or back the horses.